During last days of summer, I took some time to update the Docker and Vagrant images for Alfresco monitoring setup with Nagios / Icinga, adding support for Alfresco Search Services and also PNP4Nagios for having some visualizations. In the provided configuration, I created a new host for Alfresco Search Services, and a sample configuration for the most useful services for monitoring SOLR 6: core index errors, average measured times for SOLR handlers or caches hitradios. The sample......

I'm a big fan of command line shell utilities, and nowadays with the proliferation of REST APIs and JSON documents, one of the commands that I use more frequently in conjuction with curl is jq. jq is a lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor and, we could say it is like awk or sed, but for JSON syntax. It may installed via apt in Ubuntu, or downloaded directly from github. In the following I'm going to show some illustrative use cases with jq: Use case 1) Extracting information......

Just a simple tip today for deleting documents in SOLR via REST API and post command. Consider that you have a collection called gettingstarted and some document with id 44C...

In SOLR 6.6 the data_driven_scheme_configs configset is able to implement the features of the so-named Schemaless mode. This mode is a set of features that allow users to construct an effective schema by simply indexing sample data, without having to manually edit the schema. In the following examples, I'm using SOLR Cloud 6.6 setup and collection API. $ cd /opt/solr6/solr-6.6.0/ $ ./bin/solr create -c gettingstarted -shards 1 -replicationFactor 2 -p 8983 -d......

In SOLR, you may find different client APIs for your favourite programming language such as Java, Python, Ruby, Perl or Javascript. Basically, client apps can reach Solr by creating HTTP requests and parsing the corresponding HTTP responses, encapsulating much of the work of sending requests and parsing responses, and making easier to write client applications. If you are a java programmer you will be confortable with SorlJ, while you can use pysolr or rsolr libs, for Python and Ruby......

One of the nice features of SOLR is the ability for doing promoted or recommended searches. With this feature, you can basically use a kind of query (elevation query), that is able to elevate static searches configured by id. Use case example: Imagine that you have a popular Alfresco blog in your site, and you want that when searching for term "alfresco blog", your first or just a "recommended page" is the solutions page. In elevate.xml:

Last days I've been involved in an enterprise search project based on Apache Nutch and Apache SOLR projects. As you probably know, SOLR is a powerful enterprise search and index engine with a powerful REST API, which exposes its features as query, index, delete, commit and optimize, and also including a very useful admin interface. Web applications developed in any programing language (such as Java, .NET, Python, or Ruby), can easily call this REST API and perform SOLR operations, which are......

In the previous posts I talked about ELK stack for monitoring Alfresco. But another possibility for loading metrics or logs information, extracted by logstash, is a SOLR index server (instead of Elastic Search), which is part of Alfresco architecture by default, and in principle, it would seem more natural for indexing our Alfresco logs and metrics. Besides, there exists some ports for Kibana in SOLR, such Banana or Silk, that may be deployed in our SOLR dedicated instance. Basically, you......

Some weeks ago I wrote a post about how to set up a basic Kibana dashboard representing System Performance and Active Sessions in Alfresco Enterprise via JMX metrics from a logstash JMX input. As you probably know, no such Alfresco JMX objects are available in Alfresco Community, such as active sessions (only the java and catalina objects are available). Anyway, it is possible to obtain a similar dashboard using the relevant information from a webscript, for example, the JSON-based webscripts......

Some customers told me that last week I was a little bit eventually consistent, and this post is somehow related. I was at the Beecon 2017 in Zaragoza, the Alfresco Developer Conference, time to re-connect, re-charge, and re-commit with Alfresco Community. The event was really amazing (congrats to the organizers and those who made it happen, great event). I have been in previous Alfresco meetups, devcons and summits, but this was my first time in a Hackathon. At first I wasn't sure about......

To avoid indexing full content in Alfresco, we have different aproximations:   1. From SOLR point of view (tested in SOLR 1.4 and Alfresco 4.2.5):    In solrcore.properties (for workspace and archive store) set:    alfresco.index.transformContent=false alfresco.ignore.datatype.1=d:content   This is a general setup (for all content types).   2. From Filesystem Bulk Import and/or CMIS APIs point of view:    Add aspect cm:indexControl and use cm:isIndexed=true, and cm:isContentIndexed=false in......

This a simple tip for deactivating metadata extractors in Alfresco 4 and 5 (from Alfresco 4.1.4 and above)  When do you need this ? In a bulk filesystem import, you can lose performance in data injection due metadata extracters. When you have a huge repository with millions of documents, and you want to apply indexation policies to prevent a non-controlled indices growth. In alfresco-global.properties just type (and then restart the service): # pdfs extracter.PDFBox.enabled=false # office......

For tracking indexation in SOLR, we have the Alfresco Administration Console, which gives us the indexation status, the indices in disk, and an estimation of the remaining time of transactions to be indexed. This is available in Enterprise edition in Admin Console:   http://localhost:8080/alfresco/service/enterprise/admin/admin-searchservice   This information is directly taken from SOLR Summary XML Report (in this case the url is using 8080 instead of the default secured 8843):  ......

En muchas implantaciones de Alfresco CE y EE de las versiones 3.x, 4.x y 5.x me he encontrado que los tags no funcionan lo suficientemente bien, viendome obligado a refrescar el tagscope de los sitios. Esto produce un reindexado de estas etiquetas. Es una solución temporal, pero permite definir una acción a demanda por ejemplo en un dashlet, un webscript, o incluso en una tarea programada. Dejo aqui un script aplicable a las librerías de documentos de los sitios. Se puede ejecutar desde la......

La característica de indexado automático de los contenidos y metadatos de un documento, es normalmente bienvenida en un gestor documental. Sin embargo, en ciertos casos es deseable no indexar ese contenido, por ejemplo si una aplicación "no hace uso de ese contenido indexado".   En Alfresco 4.2 EE tenemos un par de opciones para gestionar el indexado de los documentos: La primera es a través del aspecto cm:indexControl que tiene dos propiedades, cm:isIndexed y cm:isContentIndexed, que por......

In a previous post we talk about search subsystems in Alfresco. There exists for each subsystem some quartz jobs related to backup indices. In the case of Lucene subsystem, Lucene backups are done at 3AM and their parameters are configurable via alfresco-global.properties (or extending the corresponding search subsystem).   index.backup.cronExpression=0 0 3 * * ? dir.indexes=${dir.root}/lucene-indexes dir.indexes.backup=/backup-lucene-indexes   So you can always change these values, and then......

Search subsystem in Alfresco can be Lucene or SOLR type. In the default configuration for Alfresco 4, the search subsystem is SOLR. This can be set up in alfresco-global.properties   index.subsystem.name=solr solr.port.ssl=8443 solr.host=localhost dir.keystore=${dir.root}/keystore     where the SOLR application is deployed by default on the same Tomcat container, and it works with the 8443 SSL connector. It is important, as part of the Alfresco installation, generating the a certificate......

For Alfresco 4.x and Solr 1.4: #! /bin/bash export ALF_HOME=/opt/alfresco4 export SOLR_HOME=/opt/alfresco4/alf_data/solr $ALF_HOME/alfresco.sh stop sleep 10 rm -rf $SOLR_HOME/workspace/SpacesStore/* rm -rf $SOLR_HOME/archive/SpacesStore/* rm -f $SOLR_HOME/workspace-SpacesStore/alfrescoModels/* rm -f $SOLR_HOME/archive-SpacesStore/alfrescoModels/* $ALF_HOME/alfresco.sh start   https://docs.alfresco.com/4.1/tasks/solr-reindex.html For Alfresco 5.x and Solr 4: #! /bin/bash export......